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August 21, 2007

Ron Paul

Might be the worst candidate fielded for the Republican nomination. He is the favored candidate of the recently de-pimpled college kids who haven't lived a second in the real world but somehow know how to run the nation. He is the Kucinich/Nader of the Right. He is no threat but it is annoying how much he infects the worst aspects of the internet. We ought to "mind our own business". Brilliant foreign policy.

Biographical nuance - I opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. But now the major battles have been fought and the world looks towards us to finish the job and establish some degree of peace in Iraq. Haulin ass out of there.

August 04, 2007

Another tale about how liberals support the troops

Another hugs and kisses moment between a lefty tard and the grieving gf of a KIA soldier:

I don't even know what to title this one...Yesterday was a weird day for me. A very weird day. First, I was driving to the bakery to pick up a birthday cake for my boss, because we're a cool company like that and we get birthday cake for our bosses... Anyway, I was driving along minding my own business, when a car turned onto the road and was right behind me. Okay, nothing strange yet... I saw him reading my back window (Which I forgot to take a picture of so you can see... I will soon though.) which reads:My Soldier, My Love, My HeroJames J. HoltomKilled in Action 08 Feb 07Land of the free, Because of my brave...And then he got right up next to me, flipped me off and screamed"F*** YOU AND YOUR F***ING SOLDIER!!!"....Yeah, I didn't know what to think about it, either. I thought very seriously about wrecking right into him, but then I realized that I would have to stand there with him and wait for the police... And, well, then I would probably end up going to prison because I was going to tear him apart.So. I played it cool, and just drove off. And prayer that karma will bite him in the butt later.

Grey Lady Dumpster Diggin

I was so inspired by Iowahawk’s noteworthy dumpster digging, I decided to do some myself. I was well rewarded by exploring the New York Times most newsworthy receptacle. After traipsing through the horrible unpublished Abu Ghraib photos – prisoners denied exfoliants, prisoners forced to wear bonnets, etc. I came upon this gem entitled, Defining a Republican candidate’s wife, the Template.

It reads as follows:

Things weren’t so easy for [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE’S WIFE]. What were once tea parties and cotillions have now become whistlestops and campaign appearances at the side of her husband [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE]. Once the belle of the ball for [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE’S WIFE] now feels more like a token of her husband’s White House aspirations and the strain of it is now filtering down the ladder of his campaign staff.

“Early on we felt like she was one of us, trying to get [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE] elected. But now she is much more distant, like she wants this to all be over”, said an unnamed staffer.

Another well placed strategist for [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE] was more blunt, “We refer to her as the ‘witch’ when she’s not in the office. Whenever a staffer is mysteriously fired, we like to say that [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE’S WIFE] just cast another of her spells. It kinda lightens the tension here”.

But some opponents are even less diplomatic. “She is a Bitch with a capital B” a rival campaign worker said. “If she were driving a Bradley, she would seek out every dog in the neighborhood.”

But [INSERT NAME OF CANDIDATE’S WIFE] is not offended by her critics, “Its just jealousy from those less attractive and less successful”, she barks.

And now for another Repub Prez candidate's wife with 'testy relations'

And this one from the [gasp] self-imploding, self-marginalizing, New York Times;

It has not been an easy few months for Judith Giuliani. Her rollout to the public received rocky reviews from the political class, Republicans included. A series of negative articles about her shopping habits, marital past and supposedly testy relations with campaign staff followed. Her appearances alongside her husband, Rudolph W. Giuliani, grew suddenly scarce — and some analysts suggested that she keep it that way.

Do you think they have a template for these articles which just asks the 'journalist' to INSERT the name of the candidate and INSERT the name of the candidate's wife?

The Newest Environmentalism - Drive More

Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.

The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving.

“The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.”

Mr Goodall, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon, is the latest serious thinker to turn popular myths about the environment on their head.

Catching a diesel train is now twice as polluting as travelling by car for an average family, the Rail Safety and Standards Board admitted recently. Paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic because of the extra energy needed to manufacture and transport them, the Government says.

Fresh research published in New Scientistlast month suggested that 1kg of meat cost the Earth 36kg in global warming gases. The figure was based on Japanese methods of industrial beef production but Mr Goodall says that farming techniques are similar throughout the West.

What if, instead of beef, the walker drank a glass of milk? The average person would need to drink 420ml – three quarters of a pint – to recover the calories used in the walk. Modern dairy farming emits the equivalent of 1.2kg of CO2 to produce the milk, still more pollution than the car journey.

Cattle farming is notorious for its perceived damage to the environment, based on what scientists politely call “methane production” from cows. The gas, released during the digestive process, is 21 times more harmful than CO2 . Organic beef is the most damaging because organic cattle emit more methane.

Michael O’Leary, boss of the budget airline Ryanair, has been widely derided after he was reported to have said that global warming could be solved by massacring the world’s cattle. “The way he is running around telling people they should shoot cows,” Lawrence Hunt, head of Silverjet, another budget airline, told the Commons Environmental Audit Committee. “I do not think you can really have debates with somebody with that mentality.”

Excellent smackdown to Soltz' obnoxious response to a SGT with a question at YKos

The fact is, CPT Soltz, who told the SGT to "stand down" and tactily threatened him with UCMJ action, wouldn’t know if the question were political or not until it had been asked. Instead, he sat up on his stage and used his commission to bully prior restraint on a Soldier.

And even if the question were political, that is not “engaging in politics, which has generally been interpreted to mean running for office or campaigning. Attending a political event is not included and if it were, the CPT would have been setting the SGT up for failure by not turning him out when he first showed up at the event.

The CPT is welcome to come have a “CPT to SGT” talk with me anytime he likes. If the SGT here didn’t teach him what a real NCO is like, I think I can manage.

He’s out of line and is misusing the regs for his own political purposes.

The CPT is a partisan hack using his military service as a shield from criticism. Period.

Signaleer brings up an obvious truth - why was the Sergeant berated before he even opened his mouth? LGF has the video. But curiously absent from the vid is a single word the Sgt said. They love the troops... until they speak.

But they'll laugh at you in Jackson, and I'll be dancin' on a Pony Keg.

They'll lead you 'round town like a scalded hound,With your tail tucked between your legs,Yeah, go to Jackson, you big-talkin' man.

And I'll be waitin' in Jackson, behind my Jaypan Fan, Well now, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper Sprout,

We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went.

I'm goin' to Jackson, and that's a fact. Yeah, we're goin' to Jackson, ain't never comin' back.Well, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout' And we've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went...

We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around, Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson, Look out Jackson town. Well, go on down to Jackson; go ahead and wreck your health.

Go play your hand you big-talkin' man, make a big fool of yourself,

Yeah, go to Jackson; go comb your hair!

Honey, I'm gonna snowball Jackson.

See if I care. When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. (Hah!)All them women gonna make me, teach 'em what they don't know how,I'm goin' to Jackson, you turn-a loose-a my coat.' Cos I'm goin' to Jackson.

"Goodbye," that's all she wrote. But they'll laugh at you in Jackson, and I'll be dancin' on a Pony Keg.

They'll lead you 'round town like a scalded hound, With your tail tucked between your legs,Yeah, go to Jackson, you big-talkin' man. And I'll be waitin' in Jackson, behind my Jaypan Fan,

Well now, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper Sprout,We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went. I'm goin' to Jackson, and that's a fact. Yeah, we're goin' to Jackson, ain't never comin' back. Well, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout' And we've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went...

August 03, 2007

Interesting affiliations the officer who arrested the Pace Student charged with flushing Koran

Haven't seen much pub on this on the usual anti-Dhimmi sites but did one of the arresting officers in the Stanislav Shmulevich (more info here and here) arrest have ties to the unindicted co-conspirators CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding prosecution? One site which tracks the machinations of violent Islamism notes the curious affiliations of the case's arresting officer;

The criminal complaint states that Shmulevich, a Ukranian immigrant admitted that he had twice placed a Quran in Pace University toilets, once on October 13 and again on November 21.

The arresting officer in the matter?

Detective Faisal Khan, badge number 1710

Happenstance?

Most likely not.

As it is also not happenstance that the university submitted to the demands of the Council on American Islamic Relations when it started applying pressure on campus authorities, working with the thugs from Pace University's Muslim Student Association.

Detective Khan is a member of the American Muslim Law Officers Association [and nominated to be a member of its board of directors] whose website [http://www.amleoa.com/events.html] links to the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, the Saudi funded Hamas front group] and the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] both recently named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding prosecution which began on July 24 in Dallas, Texas.

Not only does the NYPD and the Manhattan DA cave to the demands of the radical Islamism, but they go so far as to hand the arrest over to a Muslim with links to the complaining organization. All this in a city with a Police Department that has suffered like no other in the US at the hands of terrorism.

July 29, 2007

When anti-Christians attack

ANN ARBOR, MI — Thomas More Law Center Director of Communications, Brian Rooney, addressed a press conference attended by over 100 supporters on the steps of the New York City Hall on Sunday, June 24, 2007, as City Councilman Tony Avella introduced a City Council resolution that calls upon the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to amend its discriminatory holiday display policy for public elementary and secondary schools.

DOE’s current policy allows displays of the Jewish Menorah and Islamic Star and Crescent during their respective holidays, but bans displays of nativity scenes during Christmas. Council Member Avella stated, “The menorah and star and crescent are religious symbols. By adding a crèche to the holiday display, Christians will receive equal representation during the holiday season.”

A Florida judge has dismissed all counts against two members of The Gideons International who were arrested while handing out Bibles on a public sidewalk outside a school, officials with the Alliance Defense Fund said.

"Christians cannot be treated as second-class citizens," said ADF senior legal counsel David Cortman. "These two men have the same constitutional rights as everyone else to pass out literature on a public sidewalk.

July 28, 2007

Def Jam Patriotism

Confederate Sailor Buried in Ala.

I am not ashamed to profess my ignorance of the fact that a naval battle in the Civil War occurred in the English Channel. And they are still finding remains;

MOBILE, Ala. -- The remains of a Confederate sailor, recovered several years ago from a shipwreck at the bottom of the English Channel, were buried Saturday in a handmade wooden coffin pulled by a horse-drawn caisson.

The unidentified sailor's skeletal remains were found on the underside of a cannon raised from the wreck of the CSS Alabama in about 200 feet of water.

The Confederate warship was sunk in the channel off the coast of France on June 19, 1864, by the Union warship USS Kearsarge. More than 400 artifacts have been recovered from the site by American and French divers.

The CSS Alabama had a crew of about 120 members, and most were rescued by boaters in the area, but about a dozen drowned or were never heard from again, said Robert Edington, a Mobile attorney and president of the CSS Alabama Association.

Fred Thompson's 'trophy wife' runs the show

She has sometimes been dismissed as a tanned and bleached blonde "trophy wife", only ever glimpsed in sleek and glamorous outfits on the arm of her much older spouse.

Ok, I'll bite. Who dismissed her as such? That is the most virulent and sexist characterization I have seen of Thompson's wife. What lazy pissant journalism it is to fall back on the old, 'some have said' routine to mask one's own political slant.